Keyboard shortcut to access the first link in a Google search page?

Question

What is the keyboard shortcut to access the first result in a Google search page?

Any "hacks" would be fine, as long as it does not require the mouse.

Answer 1

Assuming you mean the first search result, this is already built in to Google!

Notice there is already a little ▶ arrow will next to the first search result. Turns out pressing enter after your search will navigate to that first search result automatically – note that you may need to press tab first to set the focus to it.

If you don't want the first search result, press ↓ again to move the arrow ▶ to the next result, etc, until you get the one you want.

Then press enter to navigate to the search result with the ▶ arrow.

Additionally:

• pressing ctrl+enter opens the search result in a new tab.

• pressing shift+enter opens the search result in a new browser window.

• pressing → shows a screenshot for the given search result.

This is a fairly new change and was rolled out with Google Instant Search in September 2010.

Answer 2

I quite like http://keyboardr.com/. It's a keyboard(!) based search tool based on Google's search and everything is accessible by keyboard.

Answer 3

Maybe something like Pentadactyl/Vimperator (Firefox) or Vimium (Chrome) plugins is something for you?

Answer 4

When typing with suggest, down arrow to select a query and right arrow to select I'm feeling lucky option.

Shortcuts for when you're typing in the search box:

• enter will search for exactly what you typed in the search box.

• tab will update the query you’ve typed to match the first prediction.

• ↓ will highlight the next predicted query and show new results.

• ↓ then enter will search for the highlighted prediction and points out focuses on the first result on the page.

• ↓ then → will take you to the webpage of your first result just like the "I’m Feeling Lucky" link.

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=191139